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Railfuture RAIL USER EXPRESS Welcome to This Edition of Rail User railfuture RAIL USER EXPRESS 29 May 2011 Welcome to this edition of Rail User Express. Please support Britain’s number one As always, feel free to forward RUEx to a colleague, or to reproduce advocate for the items in your own newsletter (quoting sources). If you want further details railways and rail users! of any of the stories mentioned, look on the relevant website or, failing that, get back to me so I can send you the full text. For details about group We begin with a roundup of news from rail user groups around the affiliation to Railfuture, UK. I‟m grateful to RUGs that send me their magazines and bulletins. contact David Harby Follow Railfuture on Twitter! Just add us to your Twitter account. Look for us @Railfuture GUEST RAIL USER GROUP OF THE MONTH Action Rail Monifieth contact Following my recent enquiry to this group in the Tayside area of Scotland, their Secretary, Councillor John Whyte, kindly replied with some background information about ARM: “The local rail service in and around Dundee is amongst the worst in the UK, far less just us in Scotland! Currently, Invergowrie and Monifeith have just two stopping trains a day(!!) and Broughty Ferry has three stopping trains. The population denied an adequate train service between Monifieth and Broughty Ferry is over 25,000! If this situation were replicated in any other similar area, anywhere in the UK, it would not be tolerated! “ARM is active in trying to get Network Rail, Transport Scotland and First ScotRail fully on board with this lousy rail service and is meeting with some success. Officers from TACTRAN, the regional transport partnership, are doing a first rate job in pushing for the Tay Estuary Rail Study (published about 8 years ago) to be implemented, which will create an hourly stopping service between Perth, Invergowrie, Dundee, Broughty Ferry, Monifieth, Carnoustie and Arbroath.” …we continue with news from our regular contributors… Friends of the Far North Line website A letter reproduced on page 2 of the group‟s newsletter “Far North Express” reckons that only a political spin doctor could have dreamt up the newsletter‟s title, since the line suffers from one of the slowest services in the land! As the campaign to reopen Conan Bridge station takes a major step forward with news that Network Rail is to begin detailed design work, there‟s a setback in the campaign for an hourly service between Inverness and Tain – Transport Scotland says it cannot take the proposals forward because those campaigning had not provided a business case (FoFNL would therefore like to hear from anyone with the necessary expertise and finance). After submitting its response to the Scotland Route Utilisation Strategy back in November, FoFNL has submitted a supplementary paper dealing with the imperative to speed up journey times; the group concludes that the introduction of both multiple aspect signalling and modern motorised points are needed – these together would improve reliability, ease speed restrictions and unlock further schemes such as new passing loops. Finally, a correspondent to Far North Express reminds us that this month marks the 50th anniversary of the last issue of Bradshaw‟s Guide and Hotel Directory – from the publication on his desk (priced 12s-6d), he quotes some of the fascinating paragraphs relating to the north of Scotland, including intricate rules about onward travel by bus from Wick. POSTCARDS of the WEST HIGHLAND LINES A new set of four postcards, evoking journeys on the West Highlands Lines, have been produced jointly by ScotRail, HITRANS and Friends of the West Highlands Lines. Each full-colour postcard is A5 size (21x15cm). The set of four can be obtained by post from Glenfinnan Station Museum, Station Cottage, Glenfinnan, Inverness-Shire PH37 4LT. Price: £2 per set incl postage. Anyone travelling on the West Highland Lines is presented with a free postcard, with the expectation that they will send it on to a friend and thereby spread the word about the grandeur of the routes. I’m happy to promote fund-raising merchandise offered by rail user groups. Simply send me the details! – Ed Page 1 of 10 Dornoch Rail Link Action Group website In the run up to the Scottish Parliamentary elections, DORLAG urged its supporters to raise the issue of rail investment with candidates standing for election, especially as railway services are a devolved issue for Scotland. The group argues that improvements in the rail link to Caithness are vitally necessary, in terms of capacity increases and journey time reductions, to help develop major green tidal power resources, adding: “It is absurd that major tidal energy and West of Shetland oil/ gas developments should be undertaken without major commensurate improvements to the rail line to the area where this action is going to happen. The Dornoch Rail Link is the key component of such an upgrade.” Rail Action Group, East of Scotland website Following the publication of the new (Eureka) timetable for the East Coast Main Line starting in May, RAGES‟ chairman wrote to East Coast with a list of concerns about the service levels for Dunbar and Berwick (the detailed response from the train operator is reproduced in the RAGES newsletter). Passenger counts have been undertaken by RAGES members for some of the threatened services. In addition, the group feels it is somewhat strange in this environmentally aware era to be withdrawing electric trains and replacing them with diesels under the wire [carry on reading below for news of those missing electric units! – Ed].There was a further opportunity to quiz East Coast managers about the new timetable following an invitation to sample the company‟s new first class on-board service. Now they are in possession of the Eureka timetable, the consultancy looking into the practicalities of reopening stations at East Linton and Reston hopes to reach “substantive conclusions” shortly (late news: their report is now with Transport Scotland and RAGES will be requesting a copy). In separate news, we read that the Haddington rail reopening proposal was given a good airing at a special meeting, and the favoured approach is to fund a “technical feasibility study”, this being more cost effective than a full-scale appraisal which could prove abortive. Aire Valley Rail Users’ Group website AVRUG is pleased that Northern Rail has been granted a 2 year extension, as it reflects the generally excellent quality of the local train service. However, in its Spring newsletter, the group does address the question of insufficient Class 333 electric units on their line before concluding that it‟s up to stakeholders to make the case for greater investment, for example by lobbying MPs and pointing out the benefits of rail for the environment, social inclusion and the regional economy. At the end of the newsletter, the editor takes great delight in being able to include a “Stop Press” announcement of extra electric units being moved to W Yorkshire for use on Northern Rail services; these redundant Class 322 units formerly ran between Edinburgh and N Berwick [so that’s where they went! – Ed]. Elsewhere, we read that station adopters at Saltaire have been pressing for action to reduce the large stepping distance between platform and trains, and have been promised that work to reduce the gap will start shortly. The guest speaker at AVRUG‟s AGM on 7 May was Stanley Hall, the well-known railway author and expert on signalling and rail safety. Ribble Valley Rail website RVR‟s Silver Jubilee events programme kicked off with a well-supported slide show and a behind-the- scenes tour of the National Railway Museum at York – still to come: a trip on a steam railway and an outing to Carlisle which will include a celebratory lunch. The news that platforms on Ribble Valley Line stations are to be lengthened this year is greeted with a wry comment: “this will no doubt make more work for Friends of Station groups!” A report from one of the stations on the line praised the British Transport Police who had dealt with every incident that was reported to them. There‟s news that people are visiting the RVR website at the rate of nearly 200,000 per year, with many from overseas. In a feature article reviewing the benefits to RVR of being a member of the line‟s Community Rail Partnership, Vice Chairman Marjorie Birch mentions improvements to the rail service and resources available for the wider community before concluding: “There is a commitment from all members of the partnership including ourselves to meet on a regular basis to discuss the current issues on the line and work towards finding solutions. It is always better to be on the inside taking part in discussions than being informed once the decision has been made; Ribble Valley Rail‟s contribution, as representatives of the local community, bring to the table that specific knowledge we hold regarding the needs of our community.” Page 2 of 10 Support the Oldham-Rochdale-Manchester Line Group (STORM) There has been much correspondence in STORM’s electronic newsletter recently about fare anomalies. Here are some quotes from three contributors: “Although ATOC‟s Routeing Guide is not the easiest document to use, it can be downloaded from their website: http://www.atoc.org/about-atoc/rail-settlement-plan/routeing-guide. It‟s worth having it on your PC although, as the Chairman of the relevant ATOC Committee when it was introduced, I still find it a rather difficult product. In my defence, I must point out that the experienced railway fares experts at the time of privatisation argued against its introduction but the ORR insisted we have one.” “The whole situation [with regard to fare anomalies] is barmy.
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